Overview

• Ashish Vidyarthi recounted that Shammi Kapoor said people asked him where the crowds had gone, and he replied they were outside Rajesh Khanna’s bungalow, Aashirwad.
• He shared the story from a meeting years ago in Sharjah during his Dastaan shoot, when Kapoor was there for Chattan.
• Vidyarthi presented the remark as advice about humility, saying success is fleeting and admirers eventually move on.
• The Indian Express published the account on August 27 and News18 followed on August 28, attributing it to Vidyarthi’s interview with Siddharth Kannan.
• The coverage situates Kapoor’s fading 1960s stardom against Rajesh Khanna’s early‑1970s rise and the later emergence of Amitabh Bachchan.